The era of Dick Ravitch as caretaker of the Albany graveyard is just around the corner.

In what has to be an unprecedented move, even in Albany, a sitting governor (Paterson) has asked his chief rival in the next election (Attorney General Cuomo) to investigate him for possible wrongdoing. What’s more hapless than that? The request effectively ends any slim chance the accidental governor Paterson may have had of winning a legitimate term as governor.